Countries With the Lowest Adolescent Fertility

Every country with a figure for adolescent fertility, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Macao SAR, China (0.478), Korea, Dem. People's Rep. (0.505) and Korea, Rep. (0.532). The middle country of the 217 has 26.8.

What this measures

Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19), in births per 1,000 women aged 15-19. Source: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects. For this measure, higher is worse.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2024–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on adolescent fertility

• Countries With the Highest Adolescent Fertility
• Adolescent fertility by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Life Expectancy
• Countries With the Lowest Infant Mortality
• Countries With the Lowest Under-5 Mortality
• Countries With the Lowest Health Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Suicide Rates
• Countries With the Lowest Hospital Beds
• Countries With the Lowest Basic Water Access
• Countries With the Lowest Basic Sanitation

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.